Clipper



R. DI CARLO.

CLIPPER.

APPLICATION FILED AuG.1. |919.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

INVENToR.

BY M I L CMM ATTORNEY.

RICCARDO DI CARLO, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CLIPPER.

Leashes.

Speeication of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed August 1, 1919. Serial No. 314,610.

.To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, lliccanno DI CARLO, citizen of the United States of America, residing` at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clippers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clippers and the invention has for its principal object to provide pair of automatic or motor oriven clippers capable of beingoperated at a speed which will enable them to rapidly and satisfactorily clip hair engaged thereby, thus, dispensing` with `the effort and labor incident to the operation of the ordii'iary manual clippers heretofore prevalent in the art.

Another and equally important object of the invention is to provide the clippers with a novel form of motion converting and transmitting connection whereby a reciprocal motion will be imparted to the movable clipging` blade of the construction.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of automatic clippers with a view to compactness, and in which the nurnber of parts are few, the cost of production small, and efficiency and operation high.

Other improvements and novel details in the arrangement and construction 'of parts will be apparent from an inspection of the accompanying` drawings in connection with the specific description hereinafter contained and wherein a preferred embodiment of the invention is shown for the purpose of illustration.

ln the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan View of the clippers having a part thereof broken away and shown in section; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the same.

Having more specific reference to the drawings and in connection with which lilre reference characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views, the con struction includes a frame H substantially U shaped and having the forward portions thereof disposed obliquely to the bodyrportion and converging' as at it; a laterally disposed plate 1 being carried on said forward portions and having a downwardly disposed flange 2 formed on its forward marginal portion, the purpose of which will be subsequently described. Other flanges 3 'are a engaging the under side of the plate 1 1s a movable clipping blade 8 provided "on itsV forward portion with the usual engaging and cutting teeth S', while a longitudinal groove or way 9 is formed in the upper face thereof and serves to receive the 76 flange formed on the forward portion of the plate 1, whereby to provide a guide for said blade during sliding or reciprocal movement thereof. A longitudinal slot l0 is also/ formed in the blade 8 and snugly and slid-` 75 ably receives guide pins 11 therein which pins are in turn carried upon the under sise of the plate 1 and are of lengths slightly greater than the width of the movable clipping blade 8.

The lower side of the movable clipping blade 8 has a bearing on an immovable blade 12 also provided with the usual engaging and cutting teeth 12. This plate 12 is formed with openings (not shown) in Y 85 its intermediate portion to receive those portions of the pins 11 extending from the plate 1, in order that relative sliding movement between said immovable blade 12 and the plate 1 will be prevented.

For inter-connecting the several blades 8 and 12 and the plate 1, a bolt 13 is passed through each of the saine, the head of said Vbolt being counter-sunk in the blade 12 while a nut (not shown) is engaged with the screw-threaded shank thereof. Of course, 'various forms of connections may be substituted, such as conditions or preference may dictate,

As means for sion of motion to permitting the transmisthe blade 8 `there is provided a lever 14'; formed with a tapered forward extremity 14; loosely engaging the rear portion of the blade 8, and an offset rear extremity 14a in which there is formed 105 a socket for slidably receiving a bar l5 having the rear end thereof pivoted `to a bevel 20, hereinafter described.

To house the various active parts of the clippers a casing G in form of a handle havoset atrg is probe fitted into the to rest upon a ing its forward portion vided and is adapted to .frame H and preferably,

Y shoulder 16 formed in and extending about the `inner sides of said frame, as shown 1n the F ig. 2. A transverse bearing l? ornied in the handle, Which, as will be noted, has its under side dished, and serves as a bearing for a shaft 18 carrying a bevel pinion 19 in mesh with the gear 2O rotatably mounted in the dished side or said handle and having the adjacentrend of the bar l5 pivotedthereto at 2l. The rearpor 'tion' ofthe shaft 18 is preferabiy split as atV 22, to perinit the engaging or a iiexible shaft (not shown)` thereto', a lon( gitudinal veb E23 being orined interal with the handle and arranged in the dished portion thereot` having an opening through which said flexible shaft (not shown) is passed into engageinent' with the shaft 18. A second and curved casing J is engaged overV the Yoblique portions lllof the 'frame having one end' seated in the, offset portion of the casing While the other end engages a portion or' the plate l; said casing JV being .secured in a fixed position by suitable ineens, not show-n.

In operation, the traine II is heid in the hand of a user, certain of the fingers engaging the pieces 6 and 7. Rotary motion is transmitted. to the gear 20 from whence it is converted to an oscillatory rnotion due to the connection of the link therewith and f With the' lever 14. The lever in turn irnparts a reciprocal motion to the blade 8 thus, causing functioning yoi the opposed teeth 8 and 12.V

Maniitestly, the construction shown is capable of .considerable modification andY tion loosely engaging thernovable blade and the other portion oi'set and formed with a socket, a link slidably engaging saidv socket, a casing in the iorm of a handle having a dished side fitted in said frame, a bevel gear rotatably mounted in the dished side ci the casing and .pivotally connected to the ad- `iacentV endo said' link, a pinion nieshing with said gear for imparting motion thereto, and a second curved casing engaged over said oblique and converging portions or the frame and secured to said first casing.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature Yin presence of tWo Witnesses.

RICCARDO DI CARLO.

Witnesses:

BENJAMIN APICELLA, `Josnrrr S. CnnMoNEsn. 

